Guitar Hero 5 has failed to hit the right note with the surviving members of grunge band Nirvana.
Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl – now the Foo Fighters' frontman – are reportedly “dismayed and very disappointed” that a digital Kurt Cobain can be used by gamers to play songs by other bands in the latest incarnation of Activision’ …

Isn't it possible

What a waste of time!

Could never see what the fuss was all about, show-gazing semi-punk band ( and Husker-Du rip off! ) gets mega-million sales playing watered-down punk-pap to dozy kids who've never heard decent music! Singer can't handle the pressure and decides to sort himself out. Aforementioned dozy kids turn him into some kind of martyr!

Huge FAIL moment

I'm sure Cobain gives less than a shit in his worm farm, but it's really only his bandmates and family that stand to be hurt. If they can't deal with his death after all this time, DON'T SIGN AWAY RIGHTS of any kind. His bandmates need to talk with his wife (ahem) before they fuss at Activision.

Maybe they've got a point

Cobain bopping along with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" etc sounds reasonable. Said ex-celeb's avatar bopping to Elton John "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting" (also on GH5) is not reasonable.

In which case I really can't see why Activision etc would object - other than the extra work involved - to fixing along the lines that the article suggests that the ex-Nirvana-ites suggest. Not bothered either way about CL's objections - if she got paid for the rights, then surely it's churlish to come complaining when the payee uses those rights.

Personally, I'm not a Nirvana fan anyway - so if they removed the digital Kurt from GH5, then I wouldn't feel cheated.

I'm not surprised

I'm with the band on this.

Nirvana were never comfortable being mainstream, thats half the reason he topped himself. Grunge was never about making loads of money and playing to as many people as possible. For the game makers to take Cobain's image and make him sing along to such tack as "Living on a Prayer" cheapens the message that Grunge was intended to purvey.

Of course there is no escaping the bullshit these days of record companies putting out ever more similar bands, marketing even when you're taking a piss and sponsorship for the weather.

Paris because she is an icon for the modern generation. She doesn't have any real skills or talents and is most famous for screwing on camera.

So unlocking Cobain...

...and playing weird songs in GH5 is wrong, because he's dead. But unlocking Slash and Tom Morello in GH3 and playing weird songs is fine, because they're alive to still have the piss taken out of them for that strange image on your screen?

Are you all serious?

Seriously.. it's a computer game. It's not that big of a deal.

Ok, so they had a pseudo-Hendrix in GH3, and the "real" thing in World Tour... I can't see how Activision _wouldn't_ have got permission before putting out the thousandth title in their top-selling lineup.

If that woman doesn''t like it, pull the game, take him out, don't pay her a bean. Simple. How does this change our lives? It doesn't.

Selling out

Firstly, the members of the band are nothing to do with the estate of Kurt Cobain and have no say in the matter. That's all down to Courney Love, so they should be taking it up with her, not with Activision.

Secondly, former members of Nirvana would never attempt to cash in on the past. That's why they're about to release another live album from the early 90s...

Thirdly, to the posters who said things like "Grunge was never about making loads of money and playing to as many people as possible." Want to bet? Why do record companies sign bands - to make money, of course! One band by itself does not a movement make...

I thought Nirvana were fairly rubbish Husker Du wannabes and I won't be buying the game either since I can already play real musical instruments...